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While most Jesuit students were enjoying the luxuries of electronics, filling food, air conditioning, and even a comforting bed, a group of eighteen sophomores spent their weekend deprived of these opulent resources during the Waco Poverty Immersion Trip. The students did not even get to use their phones (Crazy, right?!). The trip simulated the Jesuit students as impoverished from February...
Day 7: Community + Waves It’s the last day of dry Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. The people of Nicaragua look forward to playing some football (no, not American football – this is Central America.) With that into account, today will partially be a day of football with the Nicaraguans living in Rincon De Garcia. After the excruciatingly long bus ride, I...
  An average day for a Jesuit athlete ends with a practice after school. However, this was not the case on Tuesday, April 7th and Wednesday, April 8th, as Jesuit sports teams abstained from going to practice and, instead, built volleyball courts at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center.   Right after school, Jesuit's crew, cycling, and basketball teams loaded onto...
On January 13th and 14th of the year 2017, our ex Bishop Greg Kelly, and a multitude of people came to different locations all over Dallas to raise awareness for the children who have died due to abortion and to pray peacefully for an end to abortion. It started with a mass on Friday at St. Monica, as well as...
Steve Jobs started Apple in his parents' garage. Zuckerberg and Gates started Facebook and Microsoft in college. Where will the next billion-dollar empire be born? Room A121. That's where Jesuit's Entrepreneurship Club will be holding its first meeting of the year this Monday, September 9, after school. If you want to be part of building the next Amazon or explore...
Since January 6th, the Jesuit FRC Robotics team has been relentlessly preparing for the upcoming FRC competition “Crescendo.” The sound of drills whirring, wrenches cranking, keyboards clicking, and clanking metal echoed throughout the robotics lab as the team worked furiously to design and fabricate the perfect robot for the upcoming competition. After weeks of brainstorming, designing, building, and programming, the...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, US cities and workplaces have gradually lifted restrictions. As this occurs, the foreboding impact of the pandemic arrives: economic recession. This financial crisis is seen through rising inflation, unemployment and commodity prices. Moreover, this recession’s detrimental effects are accompanied by the drop of oil prices, ensuing energy crisis and Russo-Ukrainian War. But, let’s examine the...
Should the United States federal government substantially reduce its Foreign Military Sales and/or Direct Commercial Sales of arms from the United States? American politicians have a difficult time answering this question, which is this year's debate resolution, a shift from the immigration topic from last year. Jesuit debaters had to provide an effective argument to answer questions like this. With...

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